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Probes the uses and abuses of world literature in a changing world. This book looks at the ways works change as they move from national to global contexts. It argues that world literature is work that gains in translation.

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While overlooked by extant studies of the Gothic, William Blake's literary and visual oeuvre embodies the same obsessions and fears that inform the Gothic revival with which he was contemporary. -- .

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This enthralling new history of Aboriginal writing challenges conventional beliefs about how and when Indigenous authorship began. This book deals with real stories of how Indigenous Australians used writing and reading to negotiate a changing world, to challenge their oppressors, to preserve country and kin.

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The love of place is endemic in English literature, from the work of the earliest poets and hermits to the suburban celebrations of John Betjeman, covering all varieties of the British rural and urban landscape. This book presents an image of Britain as seen by writers of different regions and periods.

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Follow the brilliant and hilarious adventures of a mad Zen Buddhist monk who rose from humble beginnings to become one of China's greatest folk heroes!

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The critic and scholar Heather Cass White offers an exploration of the nature of reading.

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Writers, composers, painters, choreographers, playwrights, poets, philosophers, sculptors, filmmakers, and scientists on how they create (and avoid creating!) their creations.

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Putting 48 pioneering and innovative female writers firmly back on the modern map.

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Who were the women writers that inspired Jane Austen Why have they all but disappeared from our bookshelves Rare books dealer Rebecca Romney sheds a light on Austen's inspirations and contemporaries in this page-turning literary adventure.

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In 1852 Stowe's bestselling Uncle Tom's Cabin was acclaimed by Northerners and condemned by Southerners. The following year she produced this defense, which cites real-life equivalents to her characters.

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This unique document of the Russian author's creative process is illustrated by facsimiles of original pages from his notebooks, which reveal at least eight plans for the story, with numerous variations on each.

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What is the role of the writer Prophet High Priest of Art Court Jester Or witness to the real world Looking back on her own childhood and the development of her writing career, the author examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse!

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Read, Remember, Recommend for Teens offers more than 2400 award-winning and notable reading suggestions in many genres, cross-referenced to help parents and teens chose the right books for them.

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The ultimate organizing resource for book-lovers and a self-published hit, Read, Remember, Recommend gives readers a one-stop shop to keep track of their reading.

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Master storyteller's recollections of his hobo days paint a vivid portrait of life during a major economic depression. London recounts his experiences hopping trains, begging, and serving a jail term for vagrancy.

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For the first time, the complete history of literary hoaxes is revealed. Suitable for bookworms of all ages and persuasions, this is true crime for people who don't like true crime, and literary history for the historically illiterate.

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Pbk. printing of hardcover ed. published in 2005.

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A gift edition of Shakespeare's famous cycle of poems.

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In the mid-1940s, writers James McAuley and Harold Stewart submitted a series of poems to the modernist literary magazine, "Angry Penguins", under the fictitious name Ern Malley. This book not only offers an account of the Ern Malley hoax, but also presents a study of literary hoaxes and poetry in general.

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